Report prepared by Friends of Bidwell Park from data provided by Butte County Agricultural Commission.

January 11, 2005

Bidwell Park and Playground Commission
City of Chico
418 Main St.
Chico, CA 95928

Dear Commissioners,

Every year, the Chico Park Department reports their usage of registered chemicals within Bidwell Park to the BPPC, as part of their annual vegetation management report. The amount of chemicals used is small, considering the size of Bidwell Park, reflecting both the care the Park Dept. takes before deciding to use chemicals as well as sentiments that the Chico community has expressed in the past about chemical usage in Bidwell Park.

Friends of Bidwell Park felt that this information about the park was incomplete because it did not include the registered chemical usage for the Bidwell Park Golf Course, a facility possibly more likely to use fungicides, herbicides, and fertilizers because of its extensive turf management program. All usage of these registered chemicals must be reported to the Butte County Agricultural Commission and is available to the public, so we requested three year’s worth of reports for the golf course. We’ve summarized the data in the attached report. The detailed information is available upon request.

We plan to request the same information for CARD, which leases and maintains Sycamore Fields and the Hooker Oak Recreation Area, both located on park property.

Our purpose is to help educate the public regarding the management of parkland by making such relevant information available to the public, the City of Chico and those who are currently conducting water quality monitoring on Big Chico Creek. We hope that, in the future, pesticide usage data for Bidwell Park lessees will also be included in the report presented to the BPPC.

Sincerely,

Susan Mason
President, Friends of Bidwell Park

Cc:
Dennis Beardsley, Park Director
Chris Boza, Urban Forester
Fritz McKinley, Public Works Director
Timmarie Hamill, Big Chico Creek Watershed Alliance

 

 
Corrected Manufacturer Corrected Product Name Chemical Type Original EPA/CA Reg# Corrected EPA/CA Reg# Mass (lbs) Volume (gallons) No. of Applications Acres Treated

2001
Cleary Chemical Corporation 3336 WP Turf and Ornamental Fungicide Fungicide 1001-63 1001-63 24 1 2.5
Syngenta Crop Protection Inc. Alamo Fungicide Fungicide 100-741 100-741 1 1 2.5
Syngenta Crop Protection Inc. Mefenoxam MC Fungicide 100-796 100-796 1 1 2.5
Zeneca Agricultural Products Heritage Fungicide Fungicide 10182-408 10182-408 3 1 2.5
Lesco Inc. 0.15% Dimension Plus Fertilizer Fertilizer 10404-86 10404-86 26,000 2 200
PBI/Gordon Corporation Trimec Broadleaf Herbicide Bentgrass Formula Herbicide 2217-529 2217-529 2.5 1 2.5
PBI/Gordon Corporation Betamec 4 Pre-emergence grass killer Herbicide 2217-696 2217-696 2.5 1 2.5
Bayer Cropscience LP Sevin Brand RP4 Carbaryl Insecticide Insecticide 264-335 264-335 2 1 2.5
Bayer Cropscience LP Chipco Brand 26019 Flo Fungicide Fungicide 264-480 264-480 5 1 2.5
DuPont Du Pont Tupersan Siduroon Weed Killer Wettable Powder Herbicide 352-307 352-307 20 1 2.5
Lesco1 Revere 4000 Fungicide 400-454-10404 15 2 5
Zeneca1 Manicure 6 Flowable Fungicide Fungicide 50534-209-10182 20 5 11.5
Monsanto Company Roundup Ultra Herbicide Herbicide 524-475 524-475 0.31 1 1
Dow Agrosciences LLC. Dursban Pro Insecticide 62719-116 62719-166 2 1 2.5
Dow Agrosciences LLC. Confront Herbicide 627-19-92 62719-92 6 1 100
Rohm & Haas Corporation Eagle WSP Fungicide Fungicide 707-232 707-232 6 1 2.5
Rohm & Haas Corporation Fore Turf and Ornamental Fungicide Fungicide 707-87 707-87 50 1 2.5
Applied Biochemists Cutrine Plus Algaecide Algaecide/
Herbicide		 8959-10 8959-10 5 2 2
Lesco1 Lescocide-Plus Algaecide 8959-10404 5 1 1

2002
Syngenta Crop Protection Inc. Alamo Fungicide Fungicide 100-741 100-741 1.75 1 2.5
Syngenta Crop Protection Inc. Mefenoxam MC Fungicide 100-796 100-796 2 2 6.5
Syngenta Crop Protection Inc. Primo Maxx Herbicide 100-937 100-937 0.14 1 3.5
Gordon’s1 Tuperson Herbicide Wettable Herbicide 10163-213-2217 36 1 2.5
Lesco Inc. Lesco Pre-M 60 DG Herbicide Herbicide 10404-52 10404-52 440 2 150
Lesco Inc. 0.15% Dimension Plus Fertilizer Fertilizer 10404-86 10404-86 9,900 3 75.5
Phelps Dodge Refining Corporation Triangle Brand Copper Sulfate Crystal Fungicide/
Herbicide/
Algaecide		 1278-8 1278-8 25 20 0.5
BASF Corporation Pendulum WDG Herbicide Herbicide 241-340 241-340 35 3 15
Lesco1 Revere 4000 Fungicide 400-454-10404 12 1 2.5
GB Biosciences Corporation Bueno 6 50534-6 50534-6 6 7 12
Monsanto Company Roundup Ultra Herbicide Herbicide 524-475 524-475 13.72 14 22
The Scotts Company2 Proturf Goosegrass/Crabgrass Control Herbicide 538-164 538-164 430 3 8
Dow Agrosciences LLC. Dursban Pro Insecticide 62719-166 62719-166 2.25 2 3.5
Dow Agrosciences LLC. Confront Herbicide 62719-92 62719-92 3 7 12
J.R. Simplot Corporation 0.20% Dimension Fertilizer/
Herbicide		 7001-374 7001-374 100 1 0.5
Rohm & Haas Corporation Eagle WSP Fungicide Fungicide 707-232 707-232 18 2 6
Rohm & Haas Corporation Fore Turf and Ornamental Fungicide Fungicide 707-87 707-87 60 1 3.5

2003
Cleary Chemical Corporation 3336 WP Turf and Ornamental Fungicide Fungicide 1001-63 1001-63 12 1 1.5
Syngenta Crop Protection Inc. Alamo Fungicide Fungicide 100-741 100-741 3 1 2.5
Syngenta Crop Protection Inc. Primo Maxx Herbicide 100-937 100-937 0.09 1 2.5
Lesco Inc. 0.15% Dimension Plus Fertilizer Fertilizer 10404-86 10404-86 11,750 1 70
PBI/Gordon Corporation Betamec 4 Pre-emergence grass killer Herbicide 2217-696 2217-696 5.25 2 5
Bayer Environmental Science Sevin SL Carbaryl Insecticide Insecticide 432-1227 432-1227 4 1 2
Bayer Environmental Science Proxy Growth Regulator Herbicide 432-1230 432-1230 5 1 2.5
Bayer Environmental Science3 Chipco 26019 Flo Brand Fungicide Fungicide 432-888 432-888 5 1 3
Lesco1 Manicure …? 50534-202-100 20 1 2
The Scotts Company Proturf Goosegrass/Crabgrass Control Herbicide 538-164 538-164 144 1 2.5
Rohm & Haas Corporation4 Eagle WSP Fungicide 707-232 707-232 0.31 1 1.5
 

Notes:

  1. Original EPA/CA Reg# not found at http://www.cdpr.ca.gov/docs/epa/m2.htm (U.S.EPA/OPP Pesticide Products Database)
  2. Mass absent from one of three months
  3. EPA/CA Reg# gives label that does not match label given on data sheet
  4. Eagle WSP Fungicide is EPA/CA Reg# 62719-417 manufactured by Dow Agrosciences LLC. at http://www.pesticideinfo.org/Search_Products.jsp#ProdSearch.

*This data summary covers pesticide reports from January 2001 through December 2003. No reports for December 2002, January 2003, or June 2003 were provided. Pesticide reports for 2004 have not been acquired yet.